Prerelease:Super Paper Mario

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Super Paper Mario.

This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue this article? Notes: event demos, interviews

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May 2006

E3 2006

Screenshots

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• Mega Star Mario has a very different color palette from the final.
• The wedding structure in the wedding scene area isn't as decorated.
• Count Bleck did not have his cloak down in the early wedding scene.
• Count Bleck creates a basic white particle effect instead of a unique black one.
• Peach is not unconscious when Count Bleck creates the particle effect.
• Bowser doesn't have a shocked expression when Count Bleck creates the particle effect.
• Nastasia isn't behind the alter in the early wedding scene.
• The Koopa Troopas in The Bitlands still wear shades.
• Goombas were found in the underground area of The Bitlands rather than Gloombas.
• There was originally a ladder shaped Pixl that was removed in the final game.
• Tippi could be used during the big Blooper fight.
• The residents seen in one of the screenshots are unused in the final game's data.
• Peach's hair is down and isn't in a ponytail. Her parasol isn't properly transparent either.

Trailer

• The flowers in Lineland Road featured square petals, black outlines, and leaf silhouettes rather than circles attached to the stem.
• The damage indicators borrow their design and animation from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, rather than spinning/warping in place with a black outline and no drop-shadow.
• Coins sometimes fell through the ground rather than disappearing upon landing.
• Most Koopas on the hills of The Bitlands were red rather than green.
• The trailer shows the final Mega Star Mario, unlike the screenshots. This suggests that the trailer may depict a later build than the screenshots.
• Tippi's absence from The Bitlands sections also suggests the footage is from a later build.
• Whoa Zone looked slightly different and darker.
• Mario is seen wearing an astronaut helmet in Whoa Zone.

Interestingly, the trailer is called "GCN_Video_PaperMarioBros_trlr_01.mov", despite the game being referred to by its final name in the names and contents of the other E3 2006 press materials.

June 2006

Tokyo World Hobby Fair

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• Thudley initially had a transparent body, similar to other Pixls, instead of his opaque body seen in the final.

(Source: Game Watch)

These demo kiosks were played on the GameCube. It is known that chapters 1-1, 1-4, and 3-1 were playable.

Fracktail Battle

• Frackles have not been implemented yet, and Squiglets are used in place of them.
• Mario's character icon in the menu uses the same 8-bit sprite the Mega Star form and Pal Pill copies use in the final game (which itself comes from Super Mario Bros.).
• Button icons from prompts and menu descriptions used GameCube graphics.
• The D-Pad is shown to access the Quick menu, with Left, Down, and Right opening the Characters, Pixls, and Items menus respectively.
• Entering certain doors or hitting Star Blocks would result in a Game Over, essentially ending the demo. This unique feature is still found in the final game's code but never used.

Early Chapter 1-1 On GameCube

This video shows an early version of Chapter 1-1. 8-bit character icons for Peach and Bowser are also featured.

March 2007

Game Developers Conference

Erik Peterson Interview

In this video, interviewer Nikki Inderlied interviews Erik Peterson about Super Paper Mario, with the game playing in the background.